Github user gatorsmile commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/16700#discussion_r98325110 --- Diff: sql/hive/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/HiveExternalCatalog.scala --- @@ -899,6 +919,21 @@ private[spark] class HiveExternalCatalog(conf: SparkConf, hadoopConf: Configurat spec, partitionColumnNames, tablePath) try { tablePath.getFileSystem(hadoopConf).rename(wrongPath, rightPath) + + // If the newSpec contains more than one depth partition, FileSystem.rename just deletes + // the leaf(i.e. wrongPath), we should check if wrongPath's parents need to be deleted. + // For example, give a newSpec 'A=1/B=2', after calling Hive's client.renamePartitions, + // the location path in FileSystem is changed to 'a=1/b=2', which is wrongPath, then + // although we renamed it to 'A=1/B=2', 'a=1/b=2' in FileSystem is deleted, but 'a=1' + // is still exists, which we also need to delete + val delHivePartPathAfterRename = getExtraPartPathCreatedByHive( --- End diff -- The path `a=1` was created when you call `client.renamePartitions`, right? Based on my understanding, when you rename `A=1/B=3`, Hive will create the directory `a=1` and `a=1/b=3`. Thus, the rename will not fail. Have you made a try?
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